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Offline Mince

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #15 on: April 25, 2008, 11:48:21 PM »
Oh, if you insist.

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Imagine you had sixteen coins. How many different combinations of heads and tails are possible?

ANSWER: 2 x 2 x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2 = 65536

Whoever programmed the number used two bytes of memory. Each byte has eight bits (on/off switches), so there are sixteen bits being used. This allows any number from 0 to 65535.

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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #16 on: April 26, 2008, 12:12:30 AM »
Excellent. When are you going to write the interesting bit? ::)
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Offline Mince

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #17 on: April 26, 2008, 12:14:40 AM »
I never said it was going to be interesting.
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #18 on: April 26, 2008, 12:37:58 AM »
Yes, get on with it, Drama Queen!
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #19 on: April 26, 2008, 12:40:05 AM »
Do Geeks come from Geece?
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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #20 on: April 26, 2008, 05:51:16 AM »
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Fyodor

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #21 on: April 26, 2008, 10:30:30 AM »
Quote from: Mince on April 25, 2008, 11:48:21 PM
Oh, if you insist.

[geek]

Imagine you had sixteen coins. How many different combinations of heads and tails are possible?

ANSWER: 2 x 2 x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2  x 2 = 65536

Whoever programmed the number used two bytes of memory. Each byte has eight bits (on/off switches), so there are sixteen bits being used. This allows any number from 0 to 65535.

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I knew that.
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Offline Mince

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #22 on: April 26, 2008, 11:01:07 AM »
Quote from: Fyodor on April 26, 2008, 10:30:30 AM
I knew that.

Okay, try this puzzle (which I worked out in two hours at the age of fourteen).

Computers use bytes (eight bits) that can store any number between 0 and 255.

To store larger numbers, it uses more bytes.

Work out why each of these pairs of numbers represents the larger number.

10, 23 = 5898

101, 123 = 31589

123, 101 = 25979

143, 134 = 34447
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Offline The Peepmaster

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #23 on: April 26, 2008, 11:08:22 AM »
Quote from: Mince on April 26, 2008, 11:01:07 AM
Quote from: Fyodor on April 26, 2008, 10:30:30 AM
I knew that.

Okay, try this puzzle (which I worked out in two hours at the age of fourteen).

Computers use bytes (eight bits) that can store any number between 0 and 255.

To store larger numbers, it uses more bytes.

Work out why each of these pairs of numbers represents the larger number.

10, 23 = 5898

101, 123 = 31589

123, 101 = 25979

143, 134 = 34447

Sorry, at that age we were all out playing football.
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Malc

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #24 on: April 26, 2008, 12:29:48 PM »
Yeah, or shagging.
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Colin

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #25 on: April 26, 2008, 01:05:22 PM »
Quote from: Malc on April 26, 2008, 12:29:48 PM
Yeah, or shagging.

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or drinking Buckfast.
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Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #26 on: April 26, 2008, 01:16:57 PM »
Yeah, or drawing cartoons.
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #27 on: April 26, 2008, 02:55:04 PM »
We were still using pens and paper when I was 14
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Offline Diane CBPFC

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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #28 on: April 26, 2008, 02:58:09 PM »
Quote from: Colin on April 26, 2008, 01:05:22 PM
Quote from: Malc on April 26, 2008, 12:29:48 PM
Yeah, or shagging.

 ;D
or drinking Buckfast.

I think they may have won the Eurovision song contest when I was 14
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Re: Query for webmaster (because Roger won't know)
« Reply #29 on: April 26, 2008, 04:04:33 PM »
Quote from: Diane CBPFC on April 26, 2008, 02:55:04 PM
We were still using pens and paper when I was 14

Wow! They let you use ink when you were 14!
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